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Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Enzo's Splendid Garden

BASIC DOCUMENTATION
Book Title: In Enzo’s Splendid Gardens

Author(s): Patricia Polacco

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Patricia Polacco

Publisher: Philomel Books

Copyright Date: 1997

Genre: Poetry and Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Brief Annotation:
A boy, at an outside diner, drops his book as he turns to watch a bee…this causes a chain of events that continues until the firemen come to rescue the cat.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 4.5
To me, the author used interesting vocabulary and the pictures were very helpful in understanding the text plus making predictions for the next event in the sequence.

Readers who will like this book:
• Readers who enjoy repeated patterns
• Funny events
• Those that can make connections to having made or helped make messes in public places.

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins:
#48 Word Sorts (pp. 136-138)
Word sorts help students examine words and categorize them according to their meaning, part of speech or some other common element a group of words may contain.
I like the idea of using word sorts for parts of speech for some of the vocabulary found in this text. Polacco uses interesting choices of words in the text that would make sorts a great way to emphasize or review parts of speech categories and see/hear their effect on a text.


Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:
How do books use illustrations help the reader comprehend the text?
What are ways we can use the pictures to help while reading the book?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): 8-10

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 3.2
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